Stop the Ku Klux propaganda in New York : "The birth of a nation" exalts the infamous Ku Klux Klan which has been publicly accused of voting to blow up or burn Negro school houses in 1921. The film distorts and falsifies history...

Accession number

PML 199007

Published

[New York, N.Y.] : Published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, [1921?]

Credit line

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2023.

Notes

Allied Printing, New York Trades Council Union logotype at foot of sheet (local 271).

Description

1 sheet ([1] page) ; 35 x 23 cm

Provenance

"Printed & Manuscript African Americana" (Swann, 24 March 2023, lot 193).

Summary

NAACP Flyer printed on cream paper for distribution during protests of the revival of D. W. Griffith's motion picture "Birth of a Nation" at the Capitol Theatre, New York, 6 May 1921.

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Stop the Ku Klux propaganda in New York : "The birth of a nation" exalts the infamous Ku Klux Klan which has been publicly accused of voting to blow up or burn Negro school houses in 1921. The film distorts and falsifies history...